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British Medical Journal BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Edited by HUGH CLEGG,. M.A., M.B., F.R.C.P. VOLUME II 1947 JUTLY TO DECEMBER Published at the Office of the British Medical Association, Tavistock Square, London, W.CJ1, and Printed by Fisher, Knight & Co., Ltd., Gainsborough Press, St. Albans -------n KEY TO DATES AND PAGES The following table, g¶ving a key to the dates of issue and the page numbers of the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL and SUPPLEMENT in the second volume for 1947, may irove convenient to readers in search of a reference. Serial Date of Journal Supplement No. Issue Pages Pages 4513 July 5 1- 42 1- 6 4514 ,, 12 43- 82 7- 12 4515 ,, 19 83- 120 13- 18 4516 ,, 26 121- 160 19- 24 4517 Aug. 2 161- 196 25- 48 4518 ,, 9 197- 238 49- 52 4519 16 239- 282 53- 56 4520 23 283- 318 57- 58 4521 30 319- 358 59- 64 4522 Sept. 6 .359- 404 4523 13 405- 440 65- 69 4524 20 441- 476 70- 76 4525 27 477- 516 4526 Oct 4 517- 558 77- 84 4527 ,, 11 559- 598 85- 90 4528 18 599- 640 91- 94 4529 ,, 25 ,'641- 680 95- 98 4530 Nov. 1 681- 718 99-102 4531 8 719- 758 103-114 4532 ,,15 759- 806 115-118 4533 22 807- 854 119-122 4534 29 855- 896 123-128 4535 Dec. 6 897- 042 129-136 4536 13 943- 986 137-140 4537 20 987-1018 141-164 4538 27 1019-1066 165-172 INDEX TO VOLUME II FOR 1947 READERS in search of a particular subject will find it useful to bear in mind that the references are in several cases distributed under two or more separate headings-for example, Brain and Cerebral; Heart and Cardiac; Liver andf Hepatic; Renal and Kidney; Cancer and Carcinoma; Child and Infant; Goitre and Thyroid. Subjects dealt with under various main headings in the JOURNAL have been set out in alphabetical order under their respective headings-for example, " Annotations," " Correspondence," "Leading Articles," "Obituary," " Reviews," etc. Original Articles are indicated by the letter (0). ALLERGY (contnued) Annotations: A Penicillin: Allergy to penicillin with symptoms of Advance information, 1005 serum sickness (A. G. Wilkinson and K. Aged, care of the, 218 ABAZA, Alphonse: La Streptomycine: Etude Exp&i- Zinnemann), 865 (0); correspondence, 974 Allergy: Pollen, 22-Endocrine, 740 mentale et Thirapeutique, 134 Pollen, annotation on, 22 Antiseptic treatment, 21 ABBOTT, W. N. (and E. F. FOWLER): The Electrical Primula, sensitivity to, 282 Anuria, relief of, 216 Factor in Metpbaolism, 3rd ed., 497 Pruritus ani as an allergic condition, 74 Appointments: Honorary Physicians to the King, ABDERHALDEN, Emil: Lehrbuch der Physiologie, 133 63 - Rudolf: Vitamine, Hormone, Fermente, 255 Arthritis: Treatment with salts of copper, 461 ALLISON, V. D. (and Betty C. HOBBS): Inquiry into health 425 Abdominal wounds in two wars, 220 epidemiology of pemphigus neonatorum, 1 (0); Berlin, of, ABEL, A. Lawrence: Tribute to W. E. Miles, 551 leading article, 19 Blindness in Scotland, 102 Abortion, treatment of inevitable, incomplete, and ALLPORT, N. L. (and D. E. GARRATT): Metal con- Blood: Coagulation time and antibiotics, 62- septic (J. McD. Corston and John Stallworthy), Blood gravity and haemoglobin, 217 taminants in foodstuffs, 1051 Borax as an 89 (0); correspondence, 272 ALLWORTHY, S. W.: Judicial hanging, 516 insecticide, 829 - habitual, factors in, 308 Almoners, future of, 843, 1011 Botulism, 138 AsRAHAM, J. Johnston: Censorship, 1053 ALSTON, J. M.: Poliomyelitis, 432 British Association, 340 ABRAHAMS. Sir Adolphe (and others): Fatal case of Aluminium and gastritis, 757 Brucella infection in laboratory workers, 780 porphyria with unusual features, 327 (0); corre- ALVES, Mary W. (and Idwal PUGH): Poliomyelitis: Burns, toxic factor in, 827 spondence, 433, 629 second attack, 904 (0) Caincer: Mortality, 424-Carcinoma of penis. ABRAMOWITSCH, D. (a,nd B. NEOUSSIKINE): Treat- ALYEA, Hubert N. (and Vincent J. BROOKES): 699-Vaginal smears and uterine carcinoma, ment by Ion Transfer, 337 Poisons, Their Properties, Chemical Identification. 739-Relief of pain in pelvic cancer, 875- Abscess, amoebic: Of liver, 124-Of left buttock in Symptoms, and Emergency Treatment, 256 Cosmic radiation for, 916-Hormone treatment a symptomless cyst carrier (T. C. Morton and American OSE Review, 249 of cancer of breast, 965 S. F. Soutar), 996 (0) Cardiac lesions due to digitalis, prevention of, Amethocaine, overdose of, 553 501 brain, unusual (J. Maizel), 495 Amoebiasis, surgical aspects of (P. Theron), 123 lung, 788 (0); correspondence, 227, 269 Cardio-pulmonary function after pneumonectomy, ABSE, D. W.: Physical therapy of mental disorder, Amphetamine, action of, 1018 581 74 Amputation, Syme's, case of bilateral (L. H. Cane), Certification, limits of, 260 Academy, New York, of Medicine: Medicine in 211 (0) Certificates, Committee on, 877 the Changing Order, 134 Amyloid disease and rheumatoid arthritis- repo.t of Chest, interpretation of x-ray films of, 215 - Royal, of Medicine in Ireland: Section of case (W. Yeoman and J. V. Wilson), 483 (0) Child-bearing, some facts about, 460 Laryngology and Otology: Chemotherapy and Amyoplasia congenita associated with hyperostosis Chloroform anaesthesia, 699 penicillin in acute otitis media, 27 frontalis interna (R. N. Herson), 491 (0) Cholera, 619 Accidents: Psychological aspects of accidents and Anabolic phase after recovery from injury, 815 Convalescent homes, 580 accident prevention (Kenneth Soddy), 623 ; lead- correction, 1018 Criminal Law in the New Order, 63 ing article, 618 Anaemia, acute haemolytic (Lederer type), case of Deafness: In young children, 738-Ministry's hear- -- road: War Office inquiry into, 675; corre- (G. Papayannopoulos), 371; correspondenee, 590 ing-aid, 916 spondence, 708, 749, 790, 843, 934 - Diarrhoea, ac ute infective, and encephalitis, 662 Acetate in the liver, 768 haemolytic, 542 - severe, due to diaphragmatic hernia (N. J. Dicoumarol, 662 ACKERMAN, L. V. (and J. A. REGATO): Cancer: Roussak and S. Eden), 733 Disseminated sclerosis: On the track of, 460- Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis, 735 Attack on, 501 Acne rosacea, 757, 1066 Diuretics: Toxic effects of mercurial diuredcs, Actinomycosis, 159-Of rectum and anus, 273- ANAESTHESIA: 217 Abdominal, 579 Apparatus, safety, for administering trilene-and-air Drug addiction, 965 ADAMS, A. Wilfrid: State Medical Service in New analgesia (A. L. Hyatt and others), 27 Duodenal cap, at base of the, 966 Zealand, 73-Land of excuses, 190-G.M.C. and Artificial circulation produced by rocking: its use Empire Medical Bureau, 829 medical education, 545, 791 in drowning and anaesthetic emergencies (F. C. Epithelioma, basal-cell, treatment of, 341 Douglas, K.: Disseminated sclerosis, 545 Eve), 295 (0) Ether impurities, 61 J. C.: Recurrent dislocation of shoulder, 923 Books on, 134, 176, 373, 953 Food-poisoning, 138 *Adder bite, 146 Chloroform, centenary of (Douglas Guthrie), 701 Gall-bladder, surgery of, 21 Addey, William Fielding, obituary notice of, 35 annotation, 699; correspondence, 783 Glutamic acid, 62 4ddison's disease, 718-In pregnancy (annotation), Circumcision, 357 Health in 1946, 539 964 Closed circuits, remote control of (Norman R. Hermaphroditism, true, 828 XDENEY, G. C.: The extent of neurosis, 549 James), 345 Hysteria, simulating poliomyelitis, 259 Adenoids, tuberculosis of (W. M. Markham), 254 Curare in (John Gillies), 542 Indexes, half-yearly, 102 Adermin, 683 Cyclopropane, chemistry of, 357 Indium, 700 Adolescence: The unstable adolescent girl, 192- Death, sudden, from causes associated with Infant mortality and social conditions, 877 Unstable adolescents, 848 anaesthetics, 52 Intelligence, subnormal, 781 Adrenals :' Bilateral adrenalectomy in hypertension. d-tubocurarine chloride, "unjustified " use of, Kenny method, 182 403-Action of adrenal cortex on fat absorption, 840, 976, 1009 Kidneys: renal tumours, 537 643 Endotracheal flange (John Gordon), 784; corre- Lasker award to Great Britain, 877 ADRIAN, E. D.: Physiology of pain, 464 spondence, 930 Liver function and thyrotoxicosis, 780 ADRIANI, John: The Chemistry of AnaesthesIa, 176 Ether impurities (annotation), 61 Medical education, prophet in, 378 Advice to lay committees, 148 Intravenous, safer administration of, 747 Microbiology: International, 61-Congress for, 180 Africa, health of, 665 Spinal, meningitis after, 226 Mistletoe, 1039 Agene and canine hysteria (leading article), 963 Thiopentone, convulsions under (R. I. Bodman and Muscular contraction, 1006 AGERHOLM, M. (and J. TRUETA): Penicillin for A. Farr), 175 " Mushroom poisoning," 302 osteomyelitis, 73 Thiopentone-nitrous-oxide-oxygen, with curare Myasthenia gravis, treatment of, 966 AHMAD, R.: Planning and world population, 510 for head and neck surgery (J. G. Bourne), 654 Nobel prize for medicine, 698 AHRENFELDT, R. H.: Homosexuality and " sexual (0), correspondence, 745, 788, 839 Nutrition: Human nutrition laboratory at Oxford, trauma," 795 Trilene, chemistry of, 357 102-Standards of, 740 Air Ministry: Handbook of Preventive Medicine, 97 Urethane, 195 Obstetrics: Morbidity associated with induction of Air-borne infection (R. J. V. Pulvertaft), 517 (0) Vinesthene, chemistry of, 357 labour, 738 leading article, 535 Ophthalmology: DFP in glaucoma, 100 Alcohol injections, intraspinal, and sympathectomy Paediatrics, antenatal, 182 for relief of pelvic pain (J. P. Greenhill), 859 (0) Analgesia: Midwives and, 710-Intravenous pro- Pancreatitis, 580 annotation, 875; correspondence, 974, 1057 caine, 791-Local analgesia in dentistry, 942 Pathology: Training clinical pathologists, 218- 3dcoholism, reviews of books on, 456, 911 Anastomotic ulcer 12 months after Somervell opera- World Federation of Associations of Clinical ,LLXANDER, H. L.: Synopsis of Allergy, 2nd ed., tion (Harold Dodd), 170 (0); correspondence, Pathology, 1006 497 395 Penicillin: Acquired resistance to, 101-In early ALLEN, Arthur W.: Duodenal ulcer, 540, annota- Anatomy: Amateur body snatchers (1835), 67- syphilis, 303-And diphtheria carriers, 538-In tion, 538 Bodies for dissection, 379, 403, 510, 590, 633, 888 scarlet fever, 915-Intra-arterial, 1040 Clifford: Salaries of specialists in N.H.S., 189- ANDERSON, E. B.: H.T.S.T. pasteurization, 927 Petrol, for doctors, 916 Homosexual offences and psychotherapy, 632 - Robert: Foetal cries, 749 Poliomyelitis: New measures, 260-Film on, 303- -- Edgar V.
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